McNair Fallout

[User 11148]

How much of the NFLPA's relative difficulties stem from the danger of the game and that guaranteed contracts, paid out even in injury cases as in baseball, are untenable in football?

It's not that. Professional football as sold/consumed is a team sport. It has its stars, yes, but it is not an individual game like baseball or basketball. This is amplified by the relatively short careers of its players -- very few can play, or can stay healthy enough to play, for very long.

Given this, the NFL players are necessarily in a weaker bargaining position. Their union could be stronger, I think, but not that much stronger.

 

[User 11148]

I suspect the reaction would be the same, as both statements demean the players. But I do have slightly different mental imagery with the two scenarios.

I think the reaction would be substantially different. "Asylum" ... I don't think African-American men think white people think naturally of them as mental health patients. Prisoners? Well, now we're onto something.

 

[jr/shotglass]

I think the reaction would be substantially different. "Asylum" ... I don't think African-American men think white people think naturally of them as mental health patients. Prisoners? Well, now we're onto something.

Yes, I see what you're saying, and I think that's where I was going with it. The fact that McNair went with "prison" rather than "asylum" was very telling.

 

[poindexter]

McNair: you got it wrong:
McNair: “Inmate” comment was in reference to league office, not players

 

[LongTimeListener]

How in the **** are league office employees "inmates"?

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

McNair: you got it wrong:
McNair: “Inmate” comment was in reference to league office, not players

LOL

 

[Neutral Corner]

Riiiight.

He needs to hire SmellyAnne if he expects to make that bull**** stick.

 

[cranberry]

McNair: you got it wrong:
McNair: “Inmate” comment was in reference to league office, not players

He’d have been much better off owning his comment than doing this.

 

[LongTimeListener]

He’d have been much better off owning his comment than doing this.

These guys are used to dictating the truth, though. In McNair's case, it seems he has done this in Houston media forever as well as in his businesses.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

Using that logic, he would be saying that the league office cannot be running the league.

Um, yeah.

 

[LongTimeListener]

This should be pretty easy to explain to Old Boy Bob:

You

League office

Players

 

[heyabbott]

Gotta say, the way the NFL treats African Americans they ought to boycott the league as players and coaches.

 

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

GOODELL: Just say whatever you have to say to get them boys on the field in Seattle on Sunday, OK Bob?

 

[LongTimeListener]

What we have here ... is failure to communicate.

Source: Texans to protest after McNair remark

They had discussed taking off the Texans decal on their helmets, but supposedly they won't do that.

 

[DanOregon]

The NFL knows that as long as their beef with players is about money - players won't be united enough to conduct an effective work action. Make it about something like pride and self-respect? Maybe only Brady crosses the line.

 

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

Brady's definitely a line-crosser. Has zero concept or curiosity of the world outside his playbook.

 

[terrier]

Brady's definitely a line-crosser. Has zero concept or curiosity of the world outside his playbook.

Not so sure of that. Gisele would so deal on him.

 

[Elliotte Friedman]

So, who were the 10 Texans who didn't kneel?

 

[Michael_ Gee]

Brady's definitely a line-crosser. Has zero concept or curiosity of the world outside his playbook.

Brady likes being liked. If his teammates all wanted to do something, I doubt he'd go against them.

 

[Deskgrunt50]

McNair: you got it wrong:
McNair: “Inmate” comment was in reference to league office, not players

Oh, my. In what universe did his people think that line would anything less than snot-blowing laughable?